> ISRO announced the rover’s LIBS results definitively confirm the presence of sulfur at the landing site. Additionally, preliminary scans detect traces of aluminum, iron, calcium, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen in the soil. Further hydrogen detection efforts are underway.
What about hydrogen? No hydrogen means no water where they're currently landed, right?
The reason people think there will be water is that when water evaporates on the moon, it won't be instantly lost. Instead, it will bounce around for a while before it is (probabilistically) lost. If/when it hits a surface that's below freezing point in vacuum (~200K), it can instead freeze and stick to that surface.
There are believed to be such surfaces in permanently shadowed craters on the poles of the moon. They won't find any in any place where the rover can charge, but they might do short trips into shadowed spots, I don't know.
Is there? Hottest surface temp recorded on earth was 56.7C, no? And Death Valley isn't known for the presence of water (when it's anywhere close to that hot).
> Hottest surface temp recorded on earth was 56.7C, no?
Hottest air temperature at just above surface level; excluding several localized extremes like measurements around vulcanos or asphalt roads.
Asphalt surfaces can easily reach 60+°C on days with direct sunlight and little to no wind, and vulcanos supply new surface all the time with temperatures far north of 100°C.
Do you think that there might be hot springs on the Moon? Why not... our volcanoes on Earth bring water to the surface. That sounds like the kind of discovery that this mission is all about.
What about hydrogen? No hydrogen means no water where they're currently landed, right?